cold turkey

Example Sentences

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It was after tallying my December spending that I finally deleted them cold turkey in January.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2026

“It was terrifying. You can’t just go cold turkey on these things,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

According to medical literature and former patients, some programs, including CHOP, wean children off medications—including narcotics, antidepressants, steroids, and seizure medications—or encourage them to stop cold turkey.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025

"We went cold turkey really, but we managed it. We've just got used to living without Russian pipeline gas," explains Dr Jack Sharples, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2024

The truth was, I could no sooner quit cello cold turkey than I could stop breathing.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman